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Cazena funding, valuation and investors
Instant managed cloud data lake SaaS from the Netezza founding team.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series B
$20M · July 2015
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$28M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
acquired
acquired
Investors in latest funding
Other: Andreessen Horowitz
Overview
Cazena provided instant managed cloud data lake SaaS — founded by the Netezza team. a16z led an $8M Series A in 2014; Formation 8 led a $20M Series B in 2015. Cloudera acquired Cazena in June 2021 for approximately $58M alongside Datacoral.
Why Cazena is interesting
Cazena automated data-lake provisioning for analytics teams — a16z seed/Series A before Cloudera bought it for ~$58M in 2021.
Product & use cases
SaaS instant data lake provisioning for analytics teams — automated cloud data lake without manual infra setup.
- Enterprise analytics data lake provisioning
- Cloud migration for warehouse/lake workloads
- Managed SaaS data infrastructure
Key facts
- Acquired by Cloudera (Jun 2021): ~$57.8M; instant cloud data lake (Cloudera press)
- Series B (Jul 2015): $20M led by Formation 8; a16z, North Bridge participated (TechCrunch)
- Series A (Oct 2014): $8M led by a16z (TechCrunch)
- Source: https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2021-06-01-cloudera-agrees-to-acquire-saas-companies-datacoral-and-cazena.html
Funding history (newest first)
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Cazena differentiates through focused product scope and a16z-backed GTM in its category — see competitors for tradeoffs vs. incumbents.
Cazena operates in a competitive category where incumbents have distribution but startups win on workflow fit. See named competitors for honest better/worse notes; we do not invent market share.
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Snowflake incumbent
Cloud data warehouse incumbent at time of Cazena.
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Databricks direct
Lakehouse platform; broader than Cazena's SaaS lake focus.
Notable stories
- Acquired by Cloudera (Jun 2021): ~$57.8M; instant cloud data lake (Cloudera press)
- Series B (Jul 2015): $20M led by Formation 8; a16z, North Bridge participated (TechCrunch)
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